House of Refuge at Dublin. By the Rev. DR. GUINNESS. The House of Refuge was established on the 1st. of Feb. 1802, for the relief of destitute young women under twenty years of age, who are either orphans or whose parents can afford them no shelter from vice and misery. No one is admitted till the cause of her having left her last place is ascertained, and satisfactory proof has been obtained of her previous modesty, honesty, and sobriety. In that case she is here sheltered from poverty and vice, until a suitable place can be provided for her. The young women are daily visited by some of the governesses, who superintend their instruction, and take a lively pleasure in marking the progress of amendment in their appearance and circumstances. From the opening of the house thirty-one young women were received; of whom fifteen were provided with respectable places, two dismissed for bad behaviour, three taken out by friends, and eleven then remained.

8. It appears from the Appendix, that a commission warehouse was opened in the 4th of June, 1804, at the request of the society, by Messrs. Corsten and Shackle, Ludgate-hill, for the sale of Straw Platt, manufactured in schools, or by cottagers or others, who may not have advantageous means of disposing of it.

GERMANY.

to 'publish a Picture of St. Petersburgh at the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century.

MARTINOFF, Director of the Department of Public Instruction in Russia, has commenced a Periodical Publication, called the Northern Publisher. The first number contains an account of the state of learning in Russia, from the earliest times to the present period.

At the University of Moscow, lectures are now read on Natural History, Physical Science, Commerce, and the History of the European States, for the instruction of the public at large, persons of both sexes being invited to attend.

PERSIA.

Dr. DE CARRO, of Vienna, has addressed a letter, dated March 27th, 1804, to the Editors of the Bibliothique Britannique, from which it appears that the Vaccine Inoculation is rapidly advancing in the East, and is practised every where from Cape Comorin to Delhi. He has recently conveyed Vaccine Matter, by impreguating lint with it, into Persia. Dr. MILNE and Mr. JUKES, an English physician and surgeon resident in Persia, inform him, in a letter from Bashire, dated the 11th and 15th of January, that their first success produced a great sensation in that town, which is at present one of the most commercial in the whole empire. They announce also that a mission is about to set out for Tehran, the seat of government; and that Mr. Jukes, who is to accompany it in the quality of surgeon, has taken the most effectual measures to put Vaccination under the protection of the governors of the provinces, and also to explain the history and importance of it to the Sovereign, to whom they are to be presented. The English East India Company have voted to Dr. De Carro the sum of two hundred guineas for a piece of plate, in compliment to his exertions for intro

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A piece of Amber, weighing thirteen pounds, seven ounces, nine scruples, and measuring 3182 cubic inches, was lately found at Schlapaken in Germany; and is the largest mass of amber hitherto discovered. It is of a pale yellow colour, intersected with several lines; and the estimated value 40,000 dollars.

RUSSIA.

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We noticed (p 314 of the present volume) the intention of the French Government to re-establish the Mission to China. We now find, by the following extract from a French newspaper, that the scheme is much more general and extensive than was at first understood; and we are warranted, from the manner in which it is brought forward, and the deplorable state of religion in France itself (see p. 315 of this volume), in concluding, that the wish to propagate christianity has no share whatever in the plan of those who have determined upon this undertaking, any farther than it can be rendered subservient to the mercenary and political views which are the real motives of the scheme, and to an inveterate determination of counteracting, by all possible means, the extensive commerce and influence of this country.

"What was formerly only rumour is now truth. Government has ordered the establishment of the useful and respectable Institution for the preparation of Foreign Missionaries. We call it useful with regard to commercial relations, which it can favour in a most eminent manner: and respectable with regard to Religion, to preach the doctrines and precepts of which, it sends its members to the most savage, distant, and un

healthy countries. We yet recollect, with a tender emotion, the services rendered to humanity by the Barthe lemi de las Casass, by the Vincert de Pauls, by the L'Amy's, by the Tachards, &c. &c. The Society of Missionaries will consist of five hun dred members; of whom fifty are destined for the East Indies, one hun dred for China, one hundred for Africa and America, and fifty for the islands in the Southern Ocean, Otaheite, the Sandwich Islands, &c. The rest will remain as teachers in France, twenty excepted, whom government, in compliance with the request of the Canada Indians, will, perhaps, send to that part of America." (Journal de Paris.)

MISSION SOCIETY TO AFRICA AND
THE EAST.

On the 22nd of May, 1801, was held the fourth anniversary of this society, when an excellent sermon, since published, was preached by the Rev. THOMAS T. BIDDULPH, M. A. Minister of St. James's, Bristol, from these words-" Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this is the law and the prophets." Matt. vii. 12. This comprehensive rule of duty is shewn by Mr. Piddulph, to embrace every individual of the human species, and to re

spect every particular of human conduct. The benevolence which, in agreement with the whole tenor of christianity, it inculcates, bears a close resemblance to that which maketh the sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and which glowed in his bosom who gave himself for the life of the world. This law of love, therefore, comes strongly recommended to our attention, not only by the authority, but by the example of the law giver himself; who, in addition to the innumerable benefits with which he daily loads us, "hath commended his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us."-"Let then this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus."

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Having made these preliminary remarks, Mr. Biddulph proceeds to shew, "that a failure in the duty, which we owe to the souls of others, is far more sinful than any defect of brotherly kindness relative to their temporal interests." In order to feel the full force of the obligation, which the injunction in the text imposes, "let us endeavour," he says, exchange conditions with some African nation. Let us suppose the Susoos, for instance, to be furnished with those means of happiness, both here and hereafter, which we now possess, and that we were destitute, like them, of the comforts which result both from civilization and christianity."-"Fancy yourself to be a poor heathen, wandering in your native woods, without any distinct knowledge of God, or any acquaintance at all with a crucified Saviour; yet conscious of guilt, harassed by fear, and destitute of all consolation under the certain prospect of death, and a subsequent state of existence. Now what would you wish that the enlightened Susoos, enjoying your present advantages, should do to you? Let conscience determine the part which you would have them to act; and this is the rule of your own conduct, when you again contemplate yourselves as christians."-" But it is not necessary for the purpose of applying the Golden Rule to Missionary efforts, that we should prove the heathens to have any convictions of sin, or to feel any need of a Saviour*.

*We fully agree with the pious preacher in this opinion. Indeed the fact is, that

It is enough if the knowledge of Christ be allowed to be essential to salvation, or even conducive to their present happiness and their future welfare." If St. Paul, (who by Bishop Stillingfleet, in his Origines Britannica, is supposed to have been the first preacher of the gospel in this our island,) and those who furnished him with the means of taking so long a journey, had not been influenced by the Golden Rule: if the zealous Austin, the apostle of the Anglo-Saxons in the sixth century, and the devout Gregory who sent him hither had not felt its sacred energy and if none, in after ages, had acted under its direction, our present state would have been altogether as deplorable as that of the most benighted heathens. Let us remember, that we were Gentiles carried away unto dumb idols even as were led. Freely we have received, freely let us give." In fine. "Every argument which may be employed in support of any other species of charity, will apply with tenfold energy to Missionary exertions. we, by our good works, to glorify our father which is in heaven? There is no work so good, or so well calculated to promote the glory of God, as a communication of the gospel to perishing sinners. Are we bound to love our neighbour as ourselves? There is no testimony of love, which we can give, so great and decisive as an endeavour, at our own expence, to contribute to the salvation of his immortal soul."-" The command of God sanctions the effort, and the promise of God affords encouragement in making it."-" If the spirit of God attend the promulgation of his truth, nothing can withstand its energy. And we are roused to action by a confident persuasion, that the time is at hand, when all the world shall feel the benign and saving influence of the glorious gospel of the grace of God."

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These interesting extracts, we trust, will furnish to our readers sufficient encouragement to peruse the whole sermon; which, we venture to say, will abundantly reware their labour.

heathens in general are so far from being

conscious of guilt," that if there be any circumstance in their moral state, which

is

peculiarly to be deplored, it is their insensibility in this respect. In Africa, sa

crifices are offered, not so much for the purpose of quieting the conscience, as of averting the enmity of malignant demous.